[NLRS] ABC Electronics - kaput

[Ray Johnson]

Just an additional thought on ABC/ Industrial Surplus--

A few years ago, the parent company Industrial Surplus was going to sell 
the building to a condo developer. The deal fell through when the terms 
became unattractive. The counter guy told me that they had secured a 
building in Rosemount and would be moving if the deal went through. It 
didn't.

A few months back, the same guy told me their walk-in ABC business had 
dropped by 30% due to the new parking meters. The parking meters become 
pretty expensive during the Twins games as they are " variable rate" and 
close enough to be walking distance to Target Field. (any parking spaces 
within 1 mile ??)

A real shame------They had nice stock.........

rayj   WB0EBG


WA2VOI, Donn wrote:
>
>
> It looked as if they have only closed the walk-in store.  The rest of 
> the area (behind the "old" store area was still there, and still 
> packed full.
>
> E-bay is, I'm sure, more profitable than the store is/was.  Just 
> harder to get 1 or 2 $0.20 capacitors from e-bay.  :-(
>
> 73 Donn
> WA2VOI/0
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Elmquist" <chrise at pobox.com>
> To: "WA2VOI, Donn" <wa2voi at mninter.net>
> Cc: "NLRS" <NLRS at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [NLRS] ABC Electronics - kaput
>
>
> End of an era I guess Donn.  Hunh.  They probably couldn't resist selling
> the property to a developer in what has now become the high buck "North
> Loop" area.
>
> I was watching a few items on eBay that are from ABC Electronics and
> those are still active it looks like,
>
> http://stores.ebay.com/ABC-ELECTRONICS-2
>
> but per tradition, the prices on test equipment or similar are, umm, 
> kind of
> high.
>
> I wonder if they bailed on the store but are keeping an eBay presence?
>
> Chris NØJCF
>
> On Thursday (08/27/2015 at 04:15PM -0500), WA2VOI, Donn wrote:
>>
>>
>> Had an unplesent surprise this afternoon...  Went down to ABC 
>> Electronics to
>> look thru their (limited) stock of silver mica caps only to met at 
>> the door
>> with a sign (actually, TWO signs):
>>
>> ABC Electronics is closed.
>> Stock is at Ax-Max Surplus
>> 1625 University Ave, St. Paul
>>
>> The room is BARE: nothing there at all, not even shelves.
>>
>> I didn't go over to Ax-Max... State Fair and all, but we can hope 
>> that the
>> stuff will be "find-able."  One thing about ABC was that you COULD find
>> stuff without having to look for hours.  Ax-Man not so much.
>>
>> Oh, well.
>>
>> 73 Donn
>> WA2VOI/0
>>
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